Why so dissatisfied? H/G

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 135884

Rizza wrote:
"I don't understand why so many readers are so dissatisfied with the
Harry/Ginny relationship. I guess one of the biggest reasons I don't
have a problem with it is because it allows me to use my imagination."

Del replies:
And that's precisely why I have a problem with it: because it is left
entirely to our imagination. But our imagination is not necessarily in
line with JKR's intention. For example, what in HBP prevents me from
imagining an abusive relationship between those two? What prevents me
from imagining that Ginny is simply secretly feeding Love Potion to
Harry? What prevents me from imagining that Ginny was hugely
disappointed with what a romance with Harry really looks like, after
dreaming of it for so many years, that she was actually relieved when
Harry broke up with her, and that this is the true reason she let him
go so easily?

Those who want to imagine a perfectly happy H/G romance can. But those
who either don't want to, can't, or don't care to, have no reason to
agree that this romance is so beautiful. There is no canon either way,
so nobody's right, and nobody's wrong. The romance between Harry and
Ginny might as well not exist, it would be better than this undefined
unknown.

Those books are JKR's books. It is HER job to tell us what happens in
them. If I want to invent my own version of HP, I'll start writing
fanfiction. If I want to see how other fans view the H/G romance, I'll
start reading fanfiction. But when I buy the genuine thing (with very
real money too), I want the genuine version of the author. So when JKR
writes that there's a romance going on between her hero and the girl
she always destined for him, I want HER to tell me what's going on.
It's HER JOB.

Del